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A trend I’ve noticed growing in wedding photography over the past year and a half is the use of props. I really like this movement because it reminds me of fashion photography, which I’m pretty obsessed with. I’ve been trying to decide if there’s a prop or two that would be fun to use in our engagement photos. I really like the whimsy that props can add to photo shoots, yet they can also be too trendy for my taste. For our engagement pictures, I was tempted to just keep it simple, but here are a few of the props that really stuck out to me!

Books:

If I had to choose a prop that really fits us as a couple and would feel natural, I would definitely have to choose books. In school, Mr. Turtle is an English Literature major, and I’m an English Literature minor. We met in high school freshman English class, and Mr. Turtle plans on becoming an English professor. Between the two of us, we have a pretty cool collection of books! For example, check out Mr. Turtle’s bookcase at home:

Doesn’t it look straight out of a library in an old movie? It reminds me of Professor Higgins’ from My Fair Lady! This is just a small section of it, and he’s not even a professor yet! I was thinking it would be fun to pick out just a few of our favorite books and play around with something along these lines:

Photo Source: The Bride’s Cafe

Photo by Jill Thomas Photography

Balloons:

A little overdone in the wedding world? Maybe. But not in the eyes of people who don’t look at wedding blogs every day, like most of our family and friends. I think they’re cute! The photos where people are holding a balloon and look like they’re floating in the air remind me of Winnie the Pooh.

Photo by Max Wanger

Photo by Jill Thomas Photography

Photo source: Style Me Pretty

Furniture:

I also really like the pictures that use indoor furniture as props in random places like the middle of an open field.

Photo by Jill Thomas Photography

Mr. Turtle and I have two chairs that we think would look good in our pictures! The first is this yellow one we bought at an antique store:

The second, you might recognize from the post about “the wedding shoes that almost were.” We found in Mr. Turtle’s grandparents’ storage unit looking like this:

We had fun restoring this French chair to better fit with our style. We painted it white in my backyard, and I completed the molding with clay.

Our MINIs:

A fun fact about the Turtles is that we are both proud owners of MINI Coopers! Mine is cream with a black top and Mr. Turtle’s is blue with a white top. We thought it would be really cute if they made an appearance in our photos!

Anyway, we felt like we had plenty of options to choose from! In my next post, you’ll see which we ended up using! Did any of you use props in your engagement pictures? If so, what were they?